full-disclosure - Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.

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From: yehudi at tehila.gov.il (Yaakov Yehudi)
Subject: Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.

James said...
> As far as I can see it the only difference is scaling, you can make 
> many many millions of requests before a flood warning appears, whereas

> you only need to refuse to leave a few times before the police are 
> called. I guess humans have less patience than computers.
>
> Of course I could be missing something?

Evol replied...
Yes, Firewalls and people are not equivalent.  Information technology
has no sentience Mr James.

YY...
Sentience:  the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness

The point could be argued for. :-)

YY